Jubilee Singers stranded by snow in Montezuma visit
The Wil liamsburg Jubilee Singers halted in Montezuma from Saturday noon to Sunday noon due to heavy snow after winning first place in the B division at a Friday district music contest in Oskaloosa. They reached Bethel church but road conditions blocked progress until Sunday afternoon. A Baxter bakery fire destroyed interiors while saving adjacent stores. insurer covers bakery, grocery, and cafe contents. Owner Mr Mathews plans not to rebuild due to poor health.
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Baxter Bakery Fire Damages Local Businesses
A Sunday morning blaze at the Baxter Bakery owned by D. J. Mathews gutted the bakery and damaged the adjacent Klemme grocery and a cafe. Discovered about 11 45 in the morning the fire is believed to have started in the rear oven with no occupants inside.
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Prairie City News
Baxter
D. J. Mathews
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New York Woman Slims 14 Pounds on Kruschen Salts
A New York woman reports losing 14 pounds on Kruschen Salts after four weeks. She credits daily half teaspoon doses with reduced fatigue, increased activity, and brighter eyes, and notes the product costs 85 cents for a four week bottle at Ideal Pharmacy.
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America
Motorcycle Crash Claims Colfax Youth Death
Robert Cross nineteen died at Colfax Sanitarium at 8 15 a m Friday from injuries suffered Wednesday when a motorcycle was struck from behind by a car driven by Gerald Cowman son of Worth Cowman six and one half miles south of Pine City The accident happened east of Prairie City on highway 63 near the Underwood place Cross leg broken in two places with other injuries Main passenger on the motorcycle sustained minor injuries Funeral services held at Colfax Christian church Rev J W Praenzler presiding Burial in Colfax cemetery
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Hold Cheap Shows at Albia Theater
Monroe County News reports that the King Theater will offer ten cent Thursday matinee shows featuring a new picture only. The Thursday double feature now shifts the request picture to the evening presentation, while the afternoon matinee remains ten cents.
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King Theater
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McClain
Paving Join Iowa and Missouri Projects Across Jefferson Highway
Indianola Tribune reports Missouri highway commission will let a contract on April 4 to widen the Jefferson Highway pavement from Eagleville to Bethany Missouri to nineteen feet. Pavement work continues between Cameron and Excelsior Springs this spring with contracts planned between Pattenburg and Winston and Winston to Cameron. Completion will finish the full width pavement from Minneapolis to Kansas City, making a paved route to St. Joseph via federal No 36 and to Kansas City, avoiding long gravel stretches.
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Missouri Highway Commission
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Pattenburg
Winston
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Chariton trio arrested by sheriff and aides
Chariton residents Daniel Deskin Earl Anderson and Miss Jeanette Ostrings were arrested Saturday by Sheriff J H Smith and his deputies and lodged in the county jail for further investigation.
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Jeanette Ostring
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Pape's Diapepsin Parade of Quick Digestion Relief
Mrs Grace Weller of Highland Park Detroit credits seven years of indigestion relief to Papes Diapepsin. She reports weight recovery, fewer headaches after meals and quick comfort from a tablet, praising doctor endorsement and candy like taste. Drug stores carry the tablets and a free trial offer is advertised from Wheeling West Virginia.
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Three Charged In County Jail Raid Near Burlington Depot
Over the weekend in Cas County jail, three individuals faced intoxication illegal possession and liquor nuisance charges. Miss Ostring was released Monday morning though intoxication charges remained. Deskin and Anderson face trial on liquor nuisance and illegal possession charges. Sheriff J H Smith said all three were highly intoxicated when officers raided their car in a building near the Burlington depot. the apartment had previously been tied to Renny Resco.
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Anderson
J. H. Smith
Aulington
Renny Resco
New Sharon Station Robbed of 78 dollars
A New Sharon box car robbery yielded about 78 dollars in cash and a box of beverage cans. Tracks were found in wet ground and clues include tire brand and condition. Railroads vow to curb thefts and note most cases are solved.
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Silal
Mail Carriers In Trouble With Heavy Snow
Montezuma Republican reports mail carriers face heavy snow disrupting routes Saturday. On Monday and Tuesday only parts were covered and full routes were unlikely today. Carrier Paul Putnam used horseback, then a team and car. Homer Kimbley used a Model T on part of his route. Levi Martin with his brother Jesse ill, handled part of route three by Model T while Sid Wheeler delivered some by team and Paul Mitchell rode to assist if shoveling is needed.
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Post Office Building Improvements In Oskaloosa
The Oskaloosa post office will receive federal funds for building improvements this season. Dave Lewis was contracted to point brick and stone on the south side of the old building, work starting this morning. A front west entrance carrier window becomes a general delivery window, while the north lobby window closed last December is being expanded for all delivery and parcels post service. The existing general delivery window remains under John C. Bradbury. Additional work awaits Washington authorization.
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Oskaloosa Herald
Oskaloosa Post Office
Dave Lewis
Harlan Peter
John C. Bradbury
Washington
Two Soldier Patients Die at Vets Hospital
Knoxville Express reports two soldier patients at the Veteran's Hospital died in the past week. George Spensler, 43, passed last Wednesday after years as a patient. remains sent to Humeston for burial. Herman C. Beeling, 39, died last Thursday. remains sent to St. Louis where relatives live.
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Knoxville Express
Veteran’s Hospital
George Spensler
Humeston
Herman C. Beeling
St. Louis
Good will tours and Chaplin praised by citizens
A reflective column surveys President Hoover and Roosevelt praise in the Caribbean, Chaplin’s Europe fame, wheat policies, Red Cross relief, farm board losses, and a nude tax protest in British Columbia, imagining public reaction and impact in 1931.
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Hodges Provides Free Livestock Transport To Stockyards
Hodges offers the highest cash market price each month and furnishes free truck transportation of livestock from the farm to the Pleasantville stockyards, ensuring convenient access to the market.
Rockne Death Dominates Nation News In Airline Crash
In Indianola Record editors report that Knute Rockne’s death in a Kansas airplane crash is the most important news of Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. The piece notes widespread editor opinions across the United States.
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Knute Rockne
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Knute Rockne’s Death Prompts Shared Sorrow Across Faiths
An obituary note recalls Knute Rockne as athletic director of a Catholic university, born Lutheran and later confirmed Catholic. It emphasizes that his death affects neither politics nor labor nor farm prices, and highlights Protestant and Catholic unity in mourning, noting few readers knew him personally among millions who followed the tragedy.
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Pleasantville Livestock Shipper Drives Regional Trade
R A Hodges ships about one car of stock daily from Pleasantville yards, totaling 117 cars in four months. The business has moved roughly $162,000 in hogs and cattle over six months. Hodges, in livestock buying and shipping for thirty years, serves markets in Chicago Des Moines and Ottumwa, using market reports and Iowa State College forecasts to guide a high-volume, low-margin operation.
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Iconic coach embodies fair play and gentlemanly ideals
The text lauds a famed 1920s football coach who defeated Al Smith in 1928 and led the world's most successful team. It portrays him as a symbol of fair competition, a model of gentlemanly character, and a guiding figure for American sport loving public, critiquing calls for personal economic austerity as hypocritical.
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al Smith
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